The phrase "a small relic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor or insignificant object that has historical or sentimental value.
Example: "During our visit to the museum, we stumbled upon a small relic from the ancient civilization that once thrived in the region."
Alternatives: "a tiny artifact" or "a minor remnant".
If the Senate approves the new design, as it is expected to do in a few days, the old Confederate cross will be reduced to a small historical relic at the bottom of the flag, alongside images of other flags that have flown over the state.
Small relic mill dams are common in the watersheds of southern New Jersey, dotting the landscape with many small neighborhood lakes.
Bethany Ader, another Cogstone paleontologist, scrambled up and down a slippery slope of tar sand carrying small relics.
Among the other works on view there were a horizontal re-creation of "Oma Totem" (the stacked household appliances), which Vo had paid a stonecutter to carve in marble, as a gravestone for his grandmother; some branches that Vo had cut from a tree in the Phu Quoc cemetery where his older brother was buried; and several small relics and photographs of nineteenth-century missionaries.
Still, the practice continues today, with the faithful visiting shrines around the world or else keeping small relics — non-morbid ones (one assumes) — in their own homes: It might be a crucifix embedded with a grain of sand from Jerusalem, for example, or a medallion containing a bit of cloth that has touched the tomb of Saint Anthony of Padua.
Karāchi has a small museum containing relics of the early Indus Valley civilization and examples of the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhāra (a region of ancient India in what is now northwestern Pakistan); it also has some ethnological collections representing life in different regions of Pakistan.
I felt as if I were a survival, a relic, a small squat subject race".
Its doors open to reveal a small chamber in which a relic was to be placed.
It is apparently the only surviving relic from a small Book of Hours commissioned by Anne de Bretagne, Queen of France under both Charles VIII and Louis XII.
The only proof that the citadel had actually been touched by modernity since it became a historic relic was a small orthodox sanctuary that you had to walk through to get to the steps of the tower.
